Good morning folks, the weirdness continues with this off the charts giant Batfish, Ogcocephalus sp. found once again two and a half miles off shore on the tiny island of St. Eustatius.
For a size reference there is a rusted bottle-cap under him, it stands out pretty easily as it’s the only thing not white.…
Hi friends, I have one beautiful squirrelfish for you all today found on the last day of operations on our recent trip to St. Eustatius. This colorful little treasure was about three inches in length and I remember Smithsonian being super excited because of this strange color pattern you see above.…
I have another super colorful three inch Decodon for you all today, this is one of the three that was found on the St. Eustatius Expedition last month.
A Decodon is a type of wrasse and this particular species is one of my favorites to work with because of their super calm behavior and their more or less relaxed attitude.…
Good morning readers, above is a deep-sea hermit crab that was found and collected below 700 feet! The crab is around two inches wide and has glowing blue-eyes which blow me away!! This crab had small little anemones all over his shell which are almost impossible to see from these tiny web-sized photos.…
Good morning out there, while in St. Eustatius I had a major meltdown one evening when I went to download my 64gb CF card with all the week’s photos and found out the card was not working or corrupt, meaning everything I had shot including the above shots were lost until now.…
Good morning, I have the third and final Derilissus sp. (clingfish) for you all that the Smithsonian Institution and Substation Curacao crew recently discovered off the tiny coast of St.…
Good morning folks, I am trying to get all my St. Eustatius photos like this giant hermit crab I posted today ready for key-wording and sent off to be copy-righted at the US copyright office. At some point the Smithsonian will be needing these photos for talks and publications, so me having them done ahead of time will be a big bonus.…
Good morning friends, I once again have some beautiful live slit-shells for you all today that were found deep off the coast of St. Eustatius with the use of a submersible. MORE…
Good morning gang! Good news again, I have a full page dolphin photo in TIME Magazine this month in their Special Edition “The Animal Mind” oh yeah, page 67. Sorry so short, I have to meet a friend for an early mountain bike ride, have a wonderful day!!…
I’m back, I have four more invertebrates found with a deep-sea submersible from the island of St. Eustatius in the Caribbean. The top photo is some kind of weird anemone sitting on top of a rare slit-shell, below that is a cool looking deep-sea shrimp, then a big starfish that I had never seen before and finally a super tiny, smaller than a dime hermit crab from way down stairs.…